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Hwang, J. H.; Bassi, N.; Fadel, M.; Braun, O.; Dumslaff, T.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Stiefel, M.; Furrer, R.; Hayashi, H.; Yamada, H. et al.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.; Calame, M.; Perrin, M.; Fasel, R.; Ruffieux, P.; Meunier, V.; Barin, G. B.: Optimized Synthesis and Device Integration of Long 17-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons. ACS Nano 19 (42), pp. 37230 - 37240 (2025)
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Xu, Q.; Li, Y.; Jin, Z.; Yu, X.; Cao, F.; Xue, S.; Liu, H.; Wagner, M.; Müllen, K.; Zhi, L.: Reducing Exciton Binding Energy in 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks by Decreasing Layer Planarity. Advanced Functional Materials, e16937 (2025)
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Xiang, F.; Gu, Y.; Kinikar, A.; Bassi, N.; Ortega-Guerrero, A.; Qiu, Z.; Gröning, O.; Ruffieux, P.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Müllen, K. et al.; Fasel, R.: Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions. Nature Chemistry 17, pp. 1356 - 1363 (2025)
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Wang, J.; Müllen, K.; Guan, J.; Yin, M.: Water-stable perylene diimide radical anions in a metal-organic framework for efficient solar-thermal conversion and steam generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13 (40), pp. 34804 - 34812 (2025)
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Kinikar, A.; Xiang, F.; Palomino-Ruiz, L.; Lu, L.-S.; Dong, C.; Gu, Y.; Darawish, R.; Ammerman, E.; Gröning, O.; Müllen, K. et al.; Fasel, R.; Robinson, J. A.; Ruffieux, P.; Schuler, B.; Barin, G. B.: Atomic-Scale Imaging of Transferred Graphene Nanoribbons for Nanoelectronic Device Integration. ACS Applied Nano Materials 8 (33), pp. 16457 - 16464 (2025)
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Mühlinghaus, M.; Wu, Z.-H.; Graf, R.; Müllen, K.: A Highly Branched, Two-Nanometer-Wide Polyphenylene as Potential Precursor of Graphene Nanoribbons. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 226 (16), e00169 (2025)
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Jia, L.; Ye, H.; Zeng, X.; Hu, Z.; Müllen, K.; Li, F.: Triphase photocatalytic hydrogel for molecule oxygen activation with enhanced interfacial electric field by Ti-O-Fe bridging bond. Journal of Hazardous Materials 494, 138490 (2025)
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Deniz, O.; Sánchez-Sánchez, C.; Chen, Q.; Chen, qian; Shinde, P.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Liu, J.; Feng, X.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K. et al.; Fasel, R.; Passerone, D.; Ruffieux, P.: Electronic properties of on-surface synthesized (4,1,4) chiral graphene nanoribbons. Carbon 243, 120610 (2025)
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Liu, Y.; Weigold, S.; Yan, L.; Wei, Z.; Hanne, M.; Tverskoy, O.; You, S.; Xie, M.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, Q. et al.; Rominger, F.; Bunz, U. H. F.; Freudenberg, J.; Du, S.; Müllen, K.; Chi, L.: Steering Magnetic Coupling in Diradical Nonbenzenoid Nanographenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (26), pp. 23103 - 23112 (2025)
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Liang, J.; Ju, C.; Liu, Z.; Li, H.; Karina, A.; Eklund, T.; Zheng, W.; Amann-Winkel, K.; Cai, W.; Wagner, M. et al.; Qiu, Z.; Weil, T.; Müllen, K.: Fluorescence of Helical Molecular Springs Under High Pressure. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (21), e202500923 (2025)
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Recent publication highlights

Giovannantonio, M. D.; Eimre, K.; Yakutovich, A. V.; Chen, Q.; Mishra, S.; Urgel, J.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Ruffieux, P.; Muellen, K.; Narita, A. et al.; Fasel, ∥. R.: On-Surface Synthesis of Antiaromatic and Open-Shell Indeno[2,1- b]fluorene Polymers and Their Lateral Fusion into Porous Ribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (31), pp. 12346 - 12354 (2019)
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Hu, Y.; Paternò, G. M.; Wang, X.-Y.; Wang, X.-C.; Guizzardi, M.; Chen, Q.; Schollmeyer, D.; Cao, X.-Y.; Cerullo, G.; Scotognella, F. et al.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: π‑Extended Pyrene-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene as a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (32), pp. 12797 - 12803 (2019)
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Wang, X.-Y.; Yao, X.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.: Heteroatom-Doped Nanographenes with Structural Precision. Accounts of Chemical Research 52 (9), pp. 2491 - 2505 (2019)
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Xu, K.; Urgel, J. I.; Eimre, K.; Di Giovannantonio, M.; Keerthi, A.; Komber, H.; Wang, S.; Narita, A.; Berger, R.; Ruffieux, P. et al.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Liu, J.; Muellen, K.; Fasel, R.; Feng, X.: On-Surface Synthesis of a Nonplanar Porous Nanographene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (19), pp. 7726 - 7730 (2019)
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Hou, I. C.-Y.; Diez-Cabanes, V.; Galanti, A.; Valášek, M.; Mayor, M.; Cornil, J.; Narita, A.; Samori, P.; Müllen, K.: Photomodulation of Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Azobenzene-Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-Azobenzene Triads. Chemistry of Materials (2019)
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Zhong, Q.; Hu, Y.; Niu, K.; Zhang, H.; Yang, B.; Ebeling, D.; Tschakert, J.; Cheng, T.; Schirmeisen, A.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.; Chi, L.: Benzo-Fused Periacenes or Double Helicenes? Different Cyclodehydrogenation Pathways on Surface and in Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (18), pp. 7399 - 7406 (2019)
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Yao, X.; Wang, X.-Y.; Simpson, C. D.; Paternó, G. M.; Guizzardi, M.; Wagner, M.; Cerullo, G.; Scotognella, F.; Watson, M. D.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.: Regioselective Hydrogenation of a 60-Carbon Nanographene Molecule toward a Circumbiphenyl Core. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (10), pp. 4230 - 4234 (2019)
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Groning, O.; Wang, S. Y.; Yao, X.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Barin, G. B.; Daniels, C.; Cupo, A.; Meunier, V.; Feng, X.; Narita, A. et al.; Müllen, K.; Ruffieux, P.; Fasel, R.: Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons. Nature 560 (7717), pp. 209 - 213 (2018)
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Zhao, S.; Lavie, J.; Rondin, L.; Orcin-Chaix, L.; Diederichs, C.; Roussignol, P.; Chassagneux, Y.; Voisin, C.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A. et al.; Campidelli, S.; Lauret, J. S.: Single photon emission from graphene quantum dots at room temperature. Nature Communications 9, 3470 (2018)
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Hafez, H. A.; Kovalev, S.; Deinert, J. C.; Mics, Z.; Green, B.; Awari, N.; Chen, M.; Germanskiy, S.; Lehnert, U.; Teichert, J. et al.; Wang, Z.; Tielrooij, K. J.; Liu, Z.; Chen, Z.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.; Bonn, M.; Gensch, M.; Turchinovich, D.: Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions. Nature 561 (7724), pp. 507 - 511 (2018)
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Limburg, B.; Thomas, J. O.; Holloway, G.; Sadeghi, H.; Sangtarash, S.; Hou, I. C.-Y.; Cremers, J.; Narita, A.; Muellen, K.; Lambert, C. J. et al.; Briggs, G. A. D.; Mol, J. A.; Anderson, H. L.: Anchor Groups for Graphene-Porphyrin Single-Molecule Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials 28 (45), 1803629 (2018)
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Wang, X.-Y.; Urgel, J. I.; Barin, G. B.; Eimre, K.; Di Giovannantonio, M.; Milani, A.; Tommasini, M.; Pignedoli, C. A.; Ruffieux, P.; Feng, X. et al.; Fasel, R.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: Bottom-Up Synthesis of Heteroatom-Doped Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (29), pp. 9104 - 9107 (2018)
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Chen, Q.; Brambilla, L.; Daukiya, L.; Mali, K. S.; De Feyter, S.; Tommasini, M.; Müllen, K.; Narita, A.: Synthesis of Triply Fused Porphyrin-Nanographene Conjugates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (35), pp. 11233 - 11237 (2018)
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Dumslaff, B.; Wagner, M.; Schollmeyer, D.; Narita, A.; Müllen, K.: A Phenylene-Bridged Cyclohexa-meta-phenylene as Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Precursor. Chemistry – A European Journal 24 (46), pp. 11908 - 11910 (2018)
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